Robert Pearlman, MD
Ophthalmology · Chicago, ILNPI 1124088091
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 44 payments — averaging $55.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$120
- Alcon$118
- Genentech USA, Inc.$83
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$72
- Lumibird Medical Inc.$69
- plus $275 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,46560%
- Food & beverage$97340%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 17 | $1,699 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Alcon | 5 | $118 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $83 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Lumibird Medical Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Amgen | 2 | $42 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Novartis | 2 | $32 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 1 | $23 |
| Spark Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- OZURDEX$865
- DURYSTA$600
- CLARUS 500$120
How this compares
$2,438 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 773 ophthalmology providers in Illinois.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 200 | $8,382 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 222 | $6,578 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 43 | $2,533 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 25 | $534 |
| Atropine Sulfate | 13 | $532 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 28 | $309 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 27 | $297 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 15 | $236 |
| Latanoprost | 42 | $207 |
| Cyclopentolate Hcl | 12 | $138 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Chicago
- Seenu HariprasadChicago$2.3M
- Manjot GillChicago$1.4M
- Amani FawziChicago$864K
- Sarah SunshineChicago$664K
- Jennifer LimChicago$636K
- Dilraj GrewalChicago$543K
- Ahmad ArefChicago$355K
- Yannek LeidermanChicago$312K
- Asim FarooqChicago$270K
- Armin AfsharChicago$213K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.